What is Symantec Edge Secure Gateway?
Symantec Secure Gateway (formerly Advanced Secure Gateway or "ASG", including ProxySG) sits between users and their interactions with the Internet to identify malicious payloads and to control sensitive content. Secure Web Gateway consolidates a broad feature-set to authenticate users, filter web traffic, identify cloud application usage, provide data loss prevention, deliver threat prevention, and ensure visibility into encrypted traffic. It also provides coaching and feedback to the user to ensure a strong and secure user experience when interacting with the Internet. Further it can provide consolidated policy management and reporting when deployed in-concert with Cloud-Delivered Secure Web Gateway as a hybrid delivery model.
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Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-Premise, SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia |
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What is Symantec Edge Secure Gateway?
Symantec Secure Web Gateway (SWG) protects organizations across the web, social media, applications, and mobile networks. SWG acts as a proxy between users and the internet to identify malicious websites and payloads and to control access to sensitive content. SWG solutions consolidate a broad feature-set to authenticate users, filter web traffic, identify cloud application usage, provide data loss prevention, deliver threat prevention, and ensure visibility into encrypted traffic.
What are Symantec Edge Secure Gateway's top competitors?
Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, and Managed Web Application Firewall, part of Alert Logic Enterprise edition are common alternatives for Symantec Edge Secure Gateway.




